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wings produced in a fruit fly as a result of labora-
tory-engineered mutations as the greatest evidence
that mutations could lead to evolution. But the two
wings in question actually damage the creature

rather than benefiting it, leading to its losing the
ability to fly. The University of California at Berkeley
Mutations are dislocations, breaks and impair- molecular biologist Jonathan Wells summarizes
ments as a result of radiation or chemical effects the position as follows:
in the DNA molecule in the nucleus of the living In the 1970s, Cal Tech geneticist Edward B. Lewis
cell which carries all the information about a human discovered that by carefully breeding three mutant
being. The information in DNA is set out by 4 se- strains he was able to produce a fruit fly in which
parate nucleotides, symbolized by the letters A, T, the balancers were transformed into a second
C and G, laid out in a special and significant se- pair of normal-looking wings.
quence. But an error in a single letter in that se- At first glance, this might seem to provide evidence
quence will damage the entire structure. For exam- for Carroll's claim that small developmental changes
ple, the leukemia observed in children appears in regulatory DNA can produce large evolutionary
because one of the nucleotide sequences in the changes in form. But the fruit fly is still a fruit fly.
DNA is incorrect. The reason for diseases such as Furthermore, although the second pair of wings
cancer appearing or subsequent generations being looks normal, it has no flight muscles. A four-
deformed as a result of the radiation leakage at winged fruit fly is like an airplane with a second
Chernobyl, or the atom bomb dropped over Hiros- pair of wings dangling uselessly from its tail. It
hima, is again because of the harmful effects of has great difficulty flying or mating, so it can
mutations occurring in people's bodies. survive only in the laboratory. As evidence for
Almost all mutations are harmful, and they are evolution, a four-winged fruit fly is no better than
generally lethal to living things. Examples of muta- a two-headed calf in a circus sideshow. 2
tions that are not harmful generally do the organism Jonathan Wells continues:
no good, and are at best neutral. Scientists have Disabled fruit flies with extra wings or missing
concluded that not a single mutation, out of all legs have taught us something about developmental
those that have been studied, has ever had a po- genetics, but nothing about evolution. All of the
sitive effect on the life of an organism. 1 evidence points to one conclusion: no matter what
But the theory of evolution is based on these we do to a fruit fly embryo, there are only three
fictitious mutations that supposedly produce "new" possible outcomes – a normal fruit fly, a defective
living things and work miracles. Darwinists maintain fruit fly, or a dead fruit fly. Not even a horsefly,
that species emerge from one another through much less a horse. 3
structures and organs appearing as a result of co- As we have seen, the four-winged mutant fruit
untless fictitious and beneficial mutations. This fly that is the only evidence that Darwinists point
claim, which is a source of terrible shame for Dar-
to in support of their warped claims is in fact
winists, is put forward by Darwinist scientists who nothing more than a disabled fruit fly. No matter
know that mutations always harm an organism. what effect mutations may have on a life form,
Furthermore, Darwinists are well aware of these they do not possess the miraculous property of
harmful effects of mutations yet they still point to a bestowing a characteristic belonging to another
mutant, four-winged fruit fly. The four-winged fruit
life form onto it. But Darwinists want people to be-
fly emerged as a result of being subjected to ra- lieve the lie that miracles occur in living things by
diation in the laboratory. Darwinists use way of mutations.
this example in support of their claims. The interesting thing is that although Darwinist
Darwinists portrayed the extra pair of scientists know that the fruit fly in question is de-